Exhibition arrangement of 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕬𝖗𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙(𝖘)
by Marina Marković ~ curated by Teodora Jeremić ~
•𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟓𝐭𝐡
@msub_mocab
theoretical texts:
@matthieu_lelievre
@lucrezia_nardi_
@danielecapra
Ješa Denegri
ORLAN
The exhibition “The Arrangement(s)” at the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade emerges, in a way, as the final part of a series of performances focused on questions of power dynamics in the art world, within the art market, institutional policies, but above all power in relation to the female body that absorbs the viewer already through the space that takes on characteristics of a living, pulsating, and wavering body. Through an archive of previous performances and signed arrangements, as well as a new performance created in collaboration with art theorists, Marina raises the question of different positions of power that come from outside, her position within that structure, inscriptions that are inscribed on the female body, expectations of artists, truths that are imposed, meanings in the making. Just as anorexia is a form of protest against the role assigned to the female body, and contrary to common belief, not a loss of control in pursuit to fulfill the ideals of the patriarchy, but rather the maximum takeover in order to completely reject them, marking one’s own body, mapping it out, is a way of establishing a relationship with the world in which one lives, creates, negotiates.
In the game of signing agreements, that she is already very familiar with, Marina invited art theorists to write texts, which were deconstructed to creat a metatext - a statement that is tattooed on her skin, like a theoretical cage that molds her and her practic, confirming the permeability of boundaries, and the dual nature of power that is constantly handed and taken over, further validated by the act of tattooing, a symbolic act of penetration of exo-reality into endoreality, according to predetermined and agreed-upon rules.
•excrept of the text The Arrangement(s) by Teodora Jeremić
photo credit
@bojanikus
#marinamarkovic